Ballot-box politics: What has pushed Egypt’s opposition to vote ‘no’?

Source: Madamasr Author(s): Hadeer El-Mahdawy Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2019/04/22/feature/politics/ballot-box-politics-what-has-pushed-egypts-opposition-to-vote-no/ Thirty-three-year-old human rights lawyer Mahienour El-Massry could not make up her mind about what to do in the referendum on the new constitutional amendments. She was torn between boycotting and voting “no.” Then...

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Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Mapping the Field and Addressing Policy Dilemmas at the Post-2011 Juncture

Source: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs Author(s): Katerina Dalacoura Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/menara_papers/final_report/women_and_gender_in_the_middle_east_and_north_africa_mapping_the_field_and_addressing_policy_dilemmas_at_the_post_2011_juncture This report offers a “map” of the diverse situations of women in the post-2011 MENA...

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Eckart Woertz

Eckart Woertz is senior research fellow at CIDOB, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, and teaches at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). Formerly he was scientific advisor to the Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po in Paris, visiting fellow at Princeton University, director of economic studies at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, and

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Restoration, Transformation and Adaptation: Authoritarianism after 2011 in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran

Source: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs Author(s): Rasmus Alenius Boserup; Eckart Woertz; Hiba Hassan; Erzsébet N. Rózsa and Luciano Zaccara Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/menara_papers/working_papers/restoration_transformation_and_adaptation_authoritarianism_after_2011_in_egypt_saudi_arabia_and_iran Following the push for reform during the...

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Educated young women employment decisions in Egypt: A qualitative account

Source: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): Ghada Barsoum Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/sahwa_papers/scientific_paper/educated_young_Women_s_employment_decisions_in_egypt_a_qualitative_account/(language)/eng-US Overview: Despite decades of increased access to education, women’s conspicuous absence from the labour market in Egypt, and...

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Egyptian Youth: National Policies and International Initiatives

Source: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): Bahgat Korany, Mostafa El-Sayyad, Basma Serag Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/sahwa_papers/policy_paper/egyptian_youth_national_policies_and_international_initiatives/(language)/eng-US Snapshot: This policy paper aims at presenting the current state of Egyptian youth by identifying the...

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Egypt, National Case Study

Source: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): American University Cairo Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/sahwa_papers/national_case_study/egypt_national_case_study/(language)/eng-US Overview: This report presents and compiles all the ethnographic fieldwork data that the AUC Forum research team has conducted for the SAHWA project. The...

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A Ticking Bomb: Egypt’s Youth Unemployment

Source: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): Bahgat Korany, Mostafa El-Sayyad, Basma Serag Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/sahwa_papers/policy_paper/a_ticking_bomb_egypt_s_youth_unemployment/(language)/eng-US Snapshot: SAHWA’s qualitative and quantitative data, other data sets and recent field work all confirm that unemployment...

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Five Years after the Revolution, this is Egypt’s Worst Dictatorship

Source: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): Ricard González Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/opinion/mediterraneo_y_oriente_medio/five_years_after_the_revolution_this_is_egypt_s_worst_dictatorship/(language)/eng-US Five years after the first shoots of the Arab Spring appeared, the landscape in the region is bleak: Syria, Iraq and Yemen...

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Half-baked, the Other Side of Egypt’s Baladi Bread Subsidy

Source: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): Oday Kamal Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/monographs/monographs/half_baked_the_other_side_of_egypt_s_baladi_bread_subsidy Snapshot: The baladi bread subsidy is one of the most contentious subsidy systems in Egypt. It has played a key role in the country’s political economy throughout its...

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Political Participation and International Cooperation: a Public Policy Analysis of Egypt and its Youth Groups

Source: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): Bahgat Korany Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/sahwa_papers/background_paper/political_participation_and_international_cooperation_a_public_policy_analysis_of_egypt_and_its_youth_groups/(language)/eng-US Snapshot: This paper is divided into four parts and includes four annexes. The first part...

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